University of the Cumberlands offers a variety of graduate programs and online graduate programs.

Dr. Gary Pate, an alumnus of University of the Cumberlands, graduated with a B.S. in History in 1972. He continued his education at Appalachian State University, completing an M.A. in Educational Administration in 1977, and later earned two other degrees: the first in 1982, an Ed.S. in Educational Administration from Western Carolina University, and the second in 1985, an Ed.D. in Educational Administration from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

In 2000, when Dr. Pate returned to UC as a member of the faculty, he brought with him many years’ experience as a teacher and a school principal. He is most familiar to the local community for having served as principal of Williamsburg Elementary for five years.

Courses Taught
EDUC 225 Basic Concepts Concerning Education
EDUC 531 Human Resource Management and Supervision
EDAD 636 School Law
ELAD 634 Business Management in Public Schools

Dr. Bynoe’s educational training features a B.A. in American History (1978), M.A. in European History (1985)*, M.S. Ed. in Educational Administration and Policy Studies (1990), and a 2 nd M.A. in American History (1992). He earned these four degrees at the University of Albany (N.Y.). Dr. Bynoe, then, earned an Ed.D. in Educational Administration at Teachers College-Columbia University in February, 2004. Additionally, Dr. Bynoe completed graduate courses in Special Education when P.L. 94-142 first allocated federal funds to public schools for classified students during the 1978-1979 school year.

Dr. Bynoe is in his seventh year at the University of the Cumberlands, and has been scheduled to teach seven courses during the 2010-2011 academic year with a heavy focus on Educational Leadership and Administration. As a prelude to announcing the courses taught below, Dr. Bynoe has special expertise in school business management, school finance, applied research, and research methods. Dr. Bynoe maintains a keen interest in the policy of technology integration in K-12 public schools.

Dr. Bynoe has an extensive background of service to the university and to the community. In terms of service to the Education Department, Dr. Bynoe provides advisement to graduate students and undergraduate students, serves on several Educational Department committees, and serves as a professional association consultant to two organizations (Commonwealth Collaborative of School Leadership Programs [CCSLP] and the National Education Finance Conference [NEFC]). As of early October 2010, Dr. Bynoe has been appointed to a three year term as a member of the Board Advisors to the National Education Finance Conference [NEFC].

Dr. Bynoe has a rich background in supervisory and pedagogical practice. He has been a public school-administrator in various assignments involving grades K to 12. These assignments included Principal, Assistant Principal, Director of Instructional Services, and Director of Special Education. He has also been a classroom teacher of History and the Social Studies. In his teaching assignment, Dr. Bynoe taught every course in the Social Studies grades 7 through 12 at all ability levels in the hometown of Uncle Sam (the symbol of our nation’s fiscal policy).

Dr. Bynoe’s academic interests are in school-finance, effective-schools, teacher quality, organizational behavior, public school supervision, educational history, and computer applications. Outside of education disciplines, Dr. Bynoe has a unique command of diplomatic and global history from 1936 to the present. Dr. Bynoe arrived to University of the Cumberlands as a seasoned educator with a purposeful research agenda.

* The first MA is officially in Social Studies since University @ Albany’s regulations disallows the conferral of two MAs in History. Nevertheless, the course work of this degree is in European History.

* The first MA is officially in Social Studies since University @ Albany’s regulations disallows the conferral of two MAs in History. Nevertheless, the course work of this degree is in European History.

General Information:
Office: #113 Andersen Building
Phone: (606) 539-4395 [On-Campus: -4395]
Fax: (606) 539-4534
Email Address: tyrone.byone@ucumberlands.edu
Fall 2010 Office Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday: 12:00 to 5:00 pm
(Office hours are subject to change.)

Courses Taught:
*EDAD 633/ADOL 633: Applied Research Methods in Education
*EDAD 634/ADOL 634: Business Management in Public Schools
ADOL 630: Introduction to Educational Administration
EDOL 630: Research Methods in Education
EDAD 635/ADOL 635: School and Community Relations
EDAD 636: School Law I
ADOL 642: Strategic Management in Education
EDUC 636: Problems in Education
*EDUC 538: Modern Secondary School
EDUC 532/EDOL 532: Evaluation, Measurement and Assessment
EDUC 533: Educational Technology
EDUC 533/EDOL 633: Instructional Leadership and Technology
EDUC 235: Basic Concepts in Education
ELEM 334: P-5 Teaching of Social Studies

Although Dr. Bynoe is able to teach several courses, the asterisk (*) reflects courses of this professor’s interests and specialization. Dr. Bynoe teaches courses both on-site and on-line.

On-Line Course Writing and Review:
Applied-Research in Education (or EDAD 633) – The Learning House, Louisville, KY

Association Memberships:
Current and past association memberships include -- but are not limited to -- the following:
American Education Finance Association (AEFA)*
American Education Research Association (AERA*)
Association of School and Curriculum Development (ASCD)*
Commonwealth Collaborative of School Leadership Preparation (CCSLP)
International Confederation of Principals (ICP)**
International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE)*
Kentucky Association of School Administrations (KASA) – strongly considering membership affiliation.
Kentucky Cohesive Leadership Group (KyCLS)
National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)**
National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)**
National Council of Social Studies (NCSS)
National Education Finance Conference (NEFC) – Dr. Bynoe is a member of the Board of Advisors, and has a three year term on this board from October, 2010 to October, 2013.
New York State Council for the Social Studies (NYSCSS)
School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS)

Conferences Attended during the 2004-2005 School Year:
October, 2010: UC Faculty Symposium Presenter – Williamsburg, KY. Paper and Presentation: Immersion Grant Report on Research in Europe and Conference in France
July, 2010: Second International Conference on Education, Economy, and Society– Paris, France. Paper Presentation: A Study of Resource Allocation Perception and Satisfaction in Decentralized Decision-Making Systems.
March, 2010: American Finance Association Conference – Richmond, VA
Poster Presentation: A Study of Resource Allocation Perception and Satisfaction in Decentralized Decision-Making Systems.
June, 2009: National Association of Education Statistics – Washington, DC. Received training in NCES data bases related to Education Finance.
March, 2009: American Finance Association Conference – Nashville, TN . Paper Presentation: Kentucky Equity Policy Revisited, 1996-2007.
January, 2009: UC Faculty Symposium – Williamsburg, KY . Paper Presentation: Kentucky Equity Policy Revisited, 1996-2007.
April, 2008: American Finance Association Conference – Denver, CO Paper Presentation: Kentucky Equity Policy Revisited, 1996-2007.
February-March, 2007: 20th Annual MIS Conference – Atlanta, GA
January, 2007: Annual BETT Teaching and Learning Conference – London, UK
October, 2006: Teacher Quality Forum/Kentucky Department of Education – Louisville, KY
March, 2006: Annual AEFA Conference – Denver, CO
Paper Presentation: Adequacy and Accountability: A Study of Resource Sufficiency and the New Learning Standards in New York City High Schools.
November, 2005: Kentucky Department of Education Professional Development Forum: The Educator Workgroup -- Danville, KY
September, 2005: Annual Scottish Learning Festival – Glasgow, Scotland
June, 2005: Annual International Society of Technology in Education Conference – Philadelphia, PA
Spring and Summer, 2005: Annual Kentucky School Boards’ Association Conference and Annual Kentucky Association of School Administrators’ Conference – Louisville, KY
May, 2005: Kentucky Department of Education/LEAP/Wallace Foundation – Louisville, KY
April, 2005: Annual Association of School and Curriculum Development Conference –Orlando, FL
March, 2005: Annual AEFA Conference – Louisville, KY. Paper Presentation: Adequacy and Accountability: A Study of Resource Sufficiency and the New Learning Standards in New York City High Schools.
January, 2005: Monthly Meeting of Kentucky’s Professional Standards Board – Frankfort, KY
October, 2004: Fourth AnnualTeacher Quality Forum/Kentucky Department of Education – Bowling Green, KY
September, 2004: F.D. Patterson Conference. Washington, D.C.

Works in Progress
Adequacy and Accountability: A Study of Resource Sufficiency and the New Learning Standards in NYC High Schools.
A Study of Resource Allocation Perception and Satisfaction In Decentralized Decision-Making Systems, forthcoming Winter 2011.
Kentucky Equity Revisited: 1996 to 2007. A co-authored paper with Dr. Anthony Rolle. (Professor at the University of South Florida - Tampa), forthcoming Winter 2011.

Planned Paper Presentations and Research Trips

1. 1. American Education Finance Association (March, 2011) – Seattle, WA
2. 1. National Education Finance Conference (May, 2011) – Tampa, FL
3. 1. The Third Paris International Conference on Education, Economy, and Society (July, 2011) – Paris, France

Current Research Topics:
Dr. Bynoe shall pursue the following research agenda. This research agenda shall result in a number of published papers by the end of the 2011 calendar year.

1. Ensuing Research stemming from dissertation on Operational Adequacy
2. The Origins of Action Research in the United Kingdom
3. Contrasting Analysis between Local Management of Schools and School Based Budgeting
4. An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship Between School Spending and Student Performance in Kentucky’s Public Schools.

Supervision of ongoing research projects in graduate courses, especially that of Applied Research.

Interests: Research, traveling, sports (especially golf nowadays), and ministry.

My name is Kimberly Brown. I am a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University where I earned a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (K -8), Master of Arts in Education and a Rank I Certification in Educational Administration/Leadership and Supervision.

I have served as a classroom teacher and curriculum coach at the Elementary level.

At the Middle School level, I was Department Chair, Writing Portfolio Cluster Leader and teacher of Language Arts and Mathematics and was selected as Educator of the Year in 1991. I have building level experience with: The Writing Process, Reading in the Content Areas and School Improvement.

After leaving the classroom I moved into the area of District/School Administration as Director of Middle and Secondary School Education. Areas of service include: Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction, Gifted and Talented Coordinator, Coordinator of Title II and VI, District Comprehensive School Improvement Planning Coordinator and various other roles at the district level. My main interest(s) at the district level are Comprehensive School Improvement Planning, Drop-Out Prevention, Effective and Sustained District/School Professional Development Initiatives, and Professional Learning Communities.

I am a graduate of the Kentucky Leadership Academy, and the Academy for Women in School Administration. I have presented hundreds of hours of professional development and leadership seminars at the district and state level as well as presentations at the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Conference, Atlanta, Georgia and several Effective Schools Conferences, in various states.

Professional Memberships include: Kentucky Association of School Administrators, Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, Phi Delta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, the Kentucky Association of Gifted Educators and the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.

I hold the following Kentucky Certifications:

• Teacher K – 8
• Gifted and Talented Teacher K - 8
• Principal K – 12, Level II
• Supervisor of Instruction K – 12, Level II
• Gifted and Talented Coordinator
• Superintendent

My research interests include: Professional Learning Communities, District/School Culture and Accountability, Effective School Leadership, and Instructional Strategies That Positively Impact Student Achievement.

I joined the faculty at University of the Cumberlands as an Assistant Professor in September 2009. I reside in London with my husband Rick. I have one son, Jordan, who is currently a graduate student at UC and serves as an Assistant Football Coach.

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